Download or read book West Country Railway Memories written by Robert Penrose Prance and published by Reminiscences Series. This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of West Country Railway Journeys 1960 1962 written by Peter Barnfield and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tavistock Memories written by Trevor James and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyhood recollections of life in Tavistock before, during and after WW2.
Download or read book The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.
Download or read book Railway Season written by David St John Thomas and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the days when trains were trains, individual expresses had their own character, serving their passengers in style in restaurant car, and connecting services ran over picturesque branch lines that were a very part of the countryside they served. Railway Season by David St John Thomas whose Country Railway sold an astonishing 170,000 copies, captures all our railway yesterdays with panache. This is indeed a railway book like no other, a portfolio of word portraits by an enthusiast who knows his subject intimately and is never at a loss for a telling example. From his imaginary but life-like 'Day in the life of a country terminus' to the ground-breaking stuff of the natural history of railways, and from the colourful history of excursions to a poignant reminder of what traffic used to be like on peak Summer Saturdays, an evocation of watching trains and a reminder of Christmases past, the book rolls irresistibly along ... and that only mentions a fraction of the chapters. Though this is not specifically a book about the country side inevitably it looms large since even intercity trains run through it ... as demonstrated in the chapter 'A country journey like no other', which also emphasizes the author's West Country background. But whatever your interest in railways and wherever your favourite part of the countryside, there is much here for you. The chapter on railways for pleasure perhaps sums it all up.
Download or read book Train of Thought written by Humphrey Household and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Memories written by Mike Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unashamedly nostalgic, this is a personal photographic journey around some old GWR haunts as steam was beginning to lose its ascendancy on the railways of Britain.
Download or read book A North West Picture Gallery written by Stephen Chapman and published by Railway Memories. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of the Moonlight Special and Grand Beach Train Era written by Barbara Lange and published by Borealis Press. This book was released on 2023-10-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People remembered the boardwalk, concessions, the Moonlight Inn, picnics, the carousel, the dancing pavilion, Daddy Trains, beach romances, Hot Lips ginger beer, bands, Morse code, ice boxes, honey pot toilets, red boards, the wye, fishflies, bittersweet vine, the Snowshoe Special, and a bygone era when passengers felt part of one big family.From the deep, dank bowels of a century-old railway station, a roll of unused tickets surfaced for Canadian National Railway´s Victoria Beach Subdivision line. Sixty years after train service to the east shores of Lake Winnipeg ceased, a writer embarked on a journey of discovery. Creepy crawls through cemeteries, walks on wooden trestles, and strolls through Manitoba´s cottage country revealed a transplanted station, a time capsule, and the design plans for the beloved Grand Beach carouse
Download or read book Settling and Unsettling Memories written by Nicole Neatby and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field. With increasing debates surrounding how societies should publicly commemorate events and people, Settling and Unsettling Memories helps readers appreciate the challenges inherent in presenting the past. Prominent and emerging scholars explore the ways in which Canadian memory has been put into action across a variety of communities, regions, and time periods. Through high-quality essays touching on the central questions of historical consciousness and collective memory, this collection makes a significant contribution to a rapidly growing field.
Download or read book Mud on My Shoes written by Laurie Trowbridge and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in 1982 that, at the age of fifty-eight ... my railway career came to an end after forty-two years' service. I had seen many changes over the years ... it was not always easy to see the old traditions pass. Laurie Trowbridge's story begins at fabled Wolfhall Manor near Savernake Forest, where his father worked, and takes him through military training to the Coldstream Guards and duty as a 'redcap' in the Middle East at the end of World War II. His long career with Great Western Railway then British Railways took him first to a Booking Office then to the legal side and on to Welfare. Here, interactive skills, a measure of sympathy and a large dose of common sense helped him take railway staff and widows through the difficult upheavals of the Beeching years. His family life, though ultimately full of happiness, had its disappointments and upheavals too. Laurie's 'retirement' turned out to be a golden time of new working opportunities, family celebrations, a major move to Cornwall and the fellowship of a friendly community. Here is a life that encompasses nearly ninety years of enormous transformations in the make-up of our nation. Laurie's role in all this has been faithfully and entertainingly recorded in these pages. Born in Wiltshire in 1924, Laurie spent most of his early years as a country boy, before following a railway career in the West Country which lasted over forty-two years. Happily married to Barbara for over sixty years, he is quite content to be spending his twilight years in Cornwall.
Download or read book The Great Way West London to Cornwall by Rail written by Jeremy de Souza and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of images recording one of the most iconic routes on Britain's railways - London to Cornwall.
Download or read book Norfolk and Western Magazine written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West country Poets written by William Henry Kearley Wright and published by London, E. Stock. This book was released on 1896 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans written by Ana Milošević and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the process of European integration has influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western Balkans. In the region, there is still no shared understanding of the causes (and consequences) of the Yugoslav wars. The conflicts of the 1990s but also of WWII and its aftermath have created “ethnically confined” memory cultures. As such, divergent interpretations of history continue to trigger confrontations between neighboring countries and hinder the creation of a joint EU perspective. In this volume, the authors examine how these “memory wars” impact the European dimension - by becoming a tool to either support or oppose Europeanisation. The contributors focus on how and why memory is renegotiated, exhibited, adjusted, or ignored in the Europeanisation process.
Download or read book Life on the Old Railways written by Tom Quinn and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drivers, signalmen, stationmasters and more share their stories of working on steam trains. Take a step back into the world of steam railways, and discover the reality of life and work on Britain's railway system before the Beeching cuts and the introduction of diesel changed it forever. Tom Quinn has sought out a fascinating range of characters who recount their experiences of working on steam trains. From a shedmaster to a fireman, from an engine driver to a signalman, tales of accidents and mishaps, evenings round the fire in the worker's common room, and the perils of left luggage in the days when almost anything might—and frequently did—turn up! These remarkable reminiscences paint a vivid picture of life on the old railways when Britain's railway system was the envy of the world.
